Election Chiefs Say They Need More Money to Ensure Safe, Secure Voting
The CARES Act, a bipartisan coronavirus relief billby President Trump in March, allocated $400 million in emergency election funding. But many local officials say they’ve spent much of their CARES Act money on primaries and special elections, and that new funds are desperately needed for the fall general election. Aby four Republican election chiefs described the CARES Act money as “a down payment on what we need” to safely and securely run this fall’s elections.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says the earlier CARES Act money was “critical” for her state, paying for a statewide mailer that helped voters vote by mail, personal protective equipment for election workers, drop boxes that made it easier to voters to submit their mail-in ballots, and other election-related equipment at the local level.
Kelley rattles off all the new supplies and equipment he’s purchased to prepare for November: new barriers to ensure social distancing in county polling places, hundreds of thousands of gloves and face coverings and disposable pens, new signage in multiple languages. He’s had to train his own staff on how to disinfect facilities for safe in-person voting while redesigning the layouts of county vote centers to comply with physical-distancing guidelines.
“I am getting a lot of questions from voters who are questioning processes [with voting by mail] that don’t even happen here because they heard about it on the news,” she says. “But in California, we check every signature and every address, you don’t have to pay postage, and you can track your ballot through the process.”
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